The Run: Creation Myth

In the beginning of time, there were the Gods, the Goddess of the Sea and the Waters, The God of the Land and Stones, and the God of Trickery and Change, and while they loved each other as siblings, they were alone...

Summary

The gods were alone in beginning of time, living in an empty world, still settling into their new roles and this new world that was both theirs and them. Among them they had the great magics, and the power to create life, and they did, slowly at first, carefully and with exploration, creating the first animals, and slowly populating the earth with every variation of them possible, creatures that reached every part of that loney new world, from the sea to the skies.
This was not enough, the animals that chittered, crawled, chirped, roared they were not enough. Not even the creatures that flew or swam filled that empty place among the three gods, and after some time, the God of Trickery came to his fellow gods, who he loved and told them that these creatures were not enough. They needed to build something more.
So the three gods drew close together again, and began to make new things. They made Great Beasts, of which legends are still spoken, things that were capable of hissing and snarling in their own dread languages and thinking more cleverly than the most remarkable animal. Some of these beasts were gentle, like the great gray Wandering Stones, who look like slowly striding boulders over the grasslands and forests, and some were terrible, like the Devouring Serpent, which hates all other living things and nests in barren wastes of its own creation, where the only thing that stirs is a dry exhausted wind.
These creatures, while remarkable, did not satisfy them, though they tried to be satisfied. Tried to let their new creatures fill the gap in their undying hearts, but they could not, so they came together again, this time at the request of the God of Earth, and they created again. This time they made creatures so carefully and laboriously that their hands bled, and their blood mixed with the foundations of that new life, and it created the Ones Who Came Before. They were not animals, they were not Great Beasts, but they were not human either, but there were parts of them that were very nearly so, but also just as nearly animal or beast. They were clever, they were wise, and they created and sang and danced in the wild places, and they were almost enough, and much loved by the God of Earth and the God of Tricker, but the Goddess of the Sea was not satisfied, because they were strange creatures of deep magics, and while they might swim in her waters, they did not need to explore her vast waters to find new lands. Instead they danced their strange dances and their magic and dancing took them to new and wonderful places.
Finally, unsatisfied she asked the gods to come together again, and they agreed to come together one more time, perhaps the last time, and create one more time.
Out of water and earth she made them, out of trickery and change she gave them minds. Some were darker, their earth had more of the primal waters she used to craft them, and some were lighter, made toward the end, more likely to fade and less strong in the magical ways, but there was more stone in them, and they decided they were good, all of them. They were the first men, from the Trowa, long lived and gentle and magical, to the Aska, pale and proud, strong and brief, and they sang songs, they built cities and temples and made stories, they walked wild places and praised the workmanship of the gods, and they built ships and sailed to every corner of the world, and the Goddess of the Sea, the restless one without whom nothing else could have been built, was satisfied and has as far as we know remained satisfied.
She drew back, and the other gods stepped back as well. So too did the Ones Who Came Before, because the early men were unsure of them, those ones who were not man and not beast, and they stepped into the spaces between things, into the world of dreams where things are more uncertain and changable, as they are, and likely they are there still, tripping through the wild places and watching mankind and thinking thoughts almost as strange as the Gods.
Trouble none of them, not the Gods or the Ones Who Came Before, it has never paid to call down such magic and glory on yourself. Such things build or destroy empires, but what the cost?

Historical Basis

Scholars debate this strongly, the Trowa believe it is entirely true, but the Aska point out that it does certainly flatter them, and their longer lives and greater magic.
The Aska on the other hand tend to believe it in a more conceptual sense, that its an allegory to explain the world, and the magic, and the idea that you should always be careful in what you ask for, especially where magic is concerned.

Spread

A wide spread myth, at least between the Aska and Trowa, who for all their mutual annoyance with each other have a surprising amount of shared belief and history.

Variations & Mutation

The Trowa have managed to pass this down... mostly unchanged, or near enough to not much matter.
The Aska in general have increasingly over time left out the Ones Who Came Before or lumped them in with the Great Beasts. There has also been more tendency to vilify certain gods, such as the God of Trickery, though their neighbors the Trowa maintain all three gods are nessisary and have a great love for each other.